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Unit intelligence profile

Baltiysk Naval Base

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Locations
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Profile summary
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HQ: Baltiysk

Assessment

Identification

The record matches the naval harbor at Baltiysk, Kaliningrad Oblast: TASS identifies Baltiysk as the main naval base of Russia’s Baltic Fleet, and Russian port regulations refer to the water area of the Baltiysk Naval Base’s avantport in the inner harbor. The harbor sits on the Baltiysk Strait, the approximately 2 km channel linking the Vistula Lagoon to the Baltic Sea. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/defense/1873217))

Resident forces

Recent order-of-battle reporting places the 128th Surface Ship Brigade at Baltiysk with two Project 11540 frigates and four Project 20380 corvettes, and the 71st Landing Ship Brigade at Baltiysk with four Project 775/775M landing ships, two Project 12322 air-cushion landing craft, and smaller landing craft. CNA likewise identifies Baltiysk as home to the 71st, 128th, and the 342nd Emergency Rescue Detachment. ([osw.waw.pl](https://www.osw.waw.pl/sites/default/files/Report_Fortress_Kaliningrad_net_0.pdf?utm_source=openai))

Operational role

Official fleet reporting shows Baltiysk used as a regular sortie and recovery port for major surface and amphibious units: the frigate Neustrashimy returned there in November 2024 after a four-month deployment of roughly 30,000 nautical miles, and the corvette Stoiky with the large landing ship Korolyov sailed from Baltiysk on Atlantic deployment in February 2020. During 2023-2025 exercises, Baltiysk-based groups rehearsed air defense, missile and artillery fire, mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare, and anti-saboteur defense, including during Zapad-2025. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/defense/1873217))

Support

Baltiysk has sustainment infrastructure in the same harbor complex. Port regulations reference restricted waters alongside Ship Repair Yard No. 33 and part of the naval base’s avantport, and in January 2024 the Navy commander said Baltiysk was being renovated to support corvette-class formations and future next-generation diesel-electric submarines; open sources reviewed here do not publicly confirm that new submarines are already permanently based at the site. ([rosmorport.ru](https://www.rosmorport.ru/media/File/filials/Kaliningradsky/Postanovlenia.pdf))

Rescue and security

CNA and OSW both place a dedicated emergency-rescue formation at Baltiysk, and official rescue drills from the base used the SB-6 rescue tug, four diving boats, the SMK-2172 rescue boat, and a Ka-27PS helicopter to practice firefighting, damage control, medical response, and towing a damaged ship back to base. Separate Baltiysk drills also rehearsed submerged anti-saboteur defense of ships at anchorage and protection of naval bases against sabotage or reconnaissance groups. ([cna.org](https://www.cna.org/reports/2021/06/Russian-Forces-in-the-Western-Military-District.pdf))

Command structure

Subordinate formations

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36th Missile Boat Brigade

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military unit 20963, HQ: Baltiysk

1st Guards Missile Boat Squadron

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(Project 12411M missile boat: R-2 870, R-47 819, R-129 852, R-187 855, R-257 833, R-291 Dimitrovgrad 825, R-293 Morshansk 874)

106th Small Missile Ship Squadron

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(Project 12341 corvette: Geyzer 555, Zybr 560, Liven 551, Passat 570)

n/a Small Missile Ship Squadron

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(Project 21631 corvette: Zelenyy Dol 602, Serpukhov 603)

64th Water Area Protection Brigade

146th Anti-Submarine Ship Tactical Group

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(Project 1331M corvette: MPK-304 Urengoy 304, MPK-308 Zelenodolsk 308, MPK-218 Aleksin, MPK-311 Kazanets 311, MPK-243 Kabardino-Balkaria 243, MPK-232 Kalmykia 232)

323rd Minesweeper Squadron

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(Project 12650/E minesweeper: Aleksey Lebedev 505, BT-212 501, BT-213 Sergey Kolbasyev 522, BT-230 Leonid Sobolev 510), (Project 13000 minesweeper: RT-344 326, RT-276 353), (Project 10750 minesweeper: RT-252 239, RT-273 310, RT-231 219, RT-249 206)

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Known places

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71st Landing Ship Brigade

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(Project 775/M landing ship: BDK-43 Minsk 127, BDK-58 Kaliningrad 102, BDK-61 Korolev 130, BDK-100 Aleksandr Shabalin 110), (Project 12322 air cushion landing ship: Yevgeny Kocheshkov 770, Mordovia 782), (Project 21820 landing craft: Denis Davydov 748, Leytenant Rimsky-Korsakov 754, Michman Lermontov 757), (Project 11770 landing craft: D-67 767, D-1441 Kontr-admiral Demidov 791, D-1442 Kontr-admiral Olenin 792), (Project 1176: D-465 746), (Project 1388 torpedo retriever: TL-1603, TL-1668, TL-923)

128th Surface Ship Brigade

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(Project 956A destroyer: Bespokoyny 620, Nastoychivy 610), (Project 11540 frigate: Neustrashimy 712, Yaroslav Mudry 727), (Project 20380 corvette: Steregushchiy 530, Soobrazitelny 531, Boikiy 532, Stoikiy 545)

342nd Rescue Ship Detachment